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Fifth Column

Air America Radio Investigated After Bush 'gunshots'

2005-04-27

**Exclusive**

The red-hot rhetoric over Social Security on liberal talkradio network AIR AMERICA has caught the attention of the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening -- a skit featuring an apparent gunshot warning to the president!

The announcer: "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here's your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little bastard. [audio of gun being cocked]."

The audio production at the center of the controversy aired during opening minutes of The Randi Rhodes Show. "Even joking about shooting the president is a crime, let alone doing it on national radio... we are taking this very seriously," a government source explained.

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Posted by:Steve

#12 TW, I've no idea, but it sounds sooooo... deep.

people pushing it will be really packing for the border.

Unung, ya' promise?

Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-04-27 6:32:10 PM

#11 "Zero Factor" ? Is that anything like a roach coach?

Posted by: trailing wife 2005-04-27 6:26:11 PM

#10 What the idiots don't understand is that the Zero Factor is still in play and Bush could still fall victim to it. If he does in the manner portrayed in these sick pieces of self promotion, the people pushing it will be really packing for the border. They'll find that as Lincoln was the last casualty of the first American Civil War, George would be the first of the next. Civil War, Part II, in 10...9....8...

Posted by: Unung Ulaimp5834 2005-04-27 2:11:29 PM

#9 hoperin janeane dont getter any truble.

Posted by: Omolet Fluque52234doo 2005-04-27 1:03:03 PM

#8 Bah. The previous was in response to trailing wife's question: Don't you have to cock a gun before firing? Make your own joke about single vs double-action posting.

Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-04-27 12:10:11 PM

#7 No. Or, rather, it doesn't necessarily require a separate action. I learned this on Lawn Order. Who says prime time isn't educational?

Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-04-27 12:09:04 PM

#6 Crawl - walk - run. They're still learning this radio thing. In the next phase they'll learn how to go off half-cocked.

Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-27 11:22:08 AM

#5 Don't you have to cock a gun before firing?

Posted by: trailing wife 2005-04-27 11:12:25 AM

#4 This moron can't figure out how to move her ratings out of the basement without reprising her lame little "shoot Bush" routine. Last year IIRC she said someone "needs to take Bush out in a boat and off him, like Freddo was offed...'pffffft"

Pee Wee Herman syndrome.

Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-27 10:48:32 AM

#3 Randi Rhodes might just be the most classless act on radio/TV today, and there's stiff competition for that award.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-04-27 10:10:12 AM

#2 Initially this was being investigated as a suicide after they saw their winter arbitron ratings. Seems that the announcer in Walmart has a larger following than Err Amerika.

Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-04-27 10:07:01 AM

#1 "Investigators have since learned that the gunshots occurred when Randi Rhodes and Al Franken shot themselves in the foot . . . ."

Posted by: Mike 2005-04-27 9:41:49 AM

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